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TowerShifter

Our Hero isn't a regular werewolf. He is the Shapeshifter! Evil orcs conquered this land and only the Hero having the might of Bear, cunning of Fox, freedom of Bird and fearless of Wolf can defeat them!

Nice concept, and the graphics are great. I found it kinda funny that my primary strategy was to summon smaller animals in front of me to act as meatshields so the towers didn't shoot me. I also did not get the popups with the stats for each animal, but it was simple enough to deduce some things about them just from playing: the Bear is slow with high defense, the Bird is fast with low defense, and the Fox and Wolf are in between. That said, it wasn't exactly clear to me why I should choose one animal over another at any time. I guess part of this is because I don't know what the towers do, or how they affect the animals differently. For instance, how does being an Air animal affect the Bird differently from the other animals? Does it dodge shots more easily? Can some towers not reach it? I did figure out that the yellow towers *only* shoot the Bird, but I don't see a difference between the red, green, and blue towers. If some of this information was clearer, it might be easier to form a strategy.

Awesome visuals, great concept! Really enjoyed playing it. A bit difficult to understand which tower and which animal has which properties. Some kind of tutorial or different levels with increasing difficulty would be great, but obviously you had very limited time. If you put some more work into the game and add multiple levels, I could very well imagine this to be a great mobile game! Keep up the good work :)

Also, if you have some spare time, it would be great if you check out our game as well!

Took a couple minutes for me to figure out what I was supposed to do, cause at the start I didn't even realize I was the bear. It was really tough, but a clever idea that used the theme well. I'd like to see more reverse tower defense games like this.

This is a really nice entry. I like TD games. The Graphics and the sound are very good. The difficulty is quite high, but I like that. Some small tutorials on the creatues would have been nice. Well done! :)

The graphics are pretty nice and colorful, but the towers could use something more design-wise. Gameplay-wise it wasn't really communicated well enough which of the different creatures should be chosen to counter the towers, and I'm not sure if there's much reason to have the summon button. It seems like the best idea is just to summon as much as possible, so it could just be automatic. Though maybe I missed something since I never got to the end of the level.

A very nice game overall. I like the graphics and the idea a lot. The gameplay felt sometimes a bit too slow to me and the game itself was quite hard. Still, a great idea and a great usage of the theme!

That's a good idea, to put the shapeshifting theme into a tower defense! Nice game!

I've made a short let's play, if you want to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXvLRm1545U

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